6/9/2023 0 Comments Anastasia books lois lowry![]() ![]() I grew up on these books, and she was one of the few literary heroines who I really, truly identified with - it wasn't that I wanted to be her, it was that I WAS her.Īs a grown-up, it's rare for realistic fiction about precocious child characters to really work for me - the kids usually fall into the Wise Beyond Their Years category or into the Mondo Precious (In Other Words, Yackworthy) category or into the Supposedly a Child But Actually Just A Mouthpiece for the Author category. She always uses his first and last names, even in the later books. I love how Anastasia always thinks of Robert Giannini as Robert Giannini. Anastasia imagined that Longfellow was eyeing it with distaste. Westvessel cried, "Wonderful!" She gave Robert Giannini an A and hung his poem on the wall. ![]() Robert Giannini's dog was named Sputnik everyone in the neighborhood knew that and Sputnik had bitten two kids during the summer and if he bit one more person the police said the Gianninis would have to get rid of him.īut Mrs. Robert Giannini stood in front of the class and read:Īnastasia hated Robert Giannini's poem. Wednesday was the day that the members of the class were to read their own poems, aloud. And let me tell you, there are few things that have perked me up faster: So I started re-reading the Anastasia books. ![]() Was cranky, didn't want to read anything new. ![]() Was feeling headachy, so couldn't sew or watch a movie. I was feeling rotten Wednesday, so I went home sick. ![]()
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